Arkan Muhammad Ali al-Hasnawi

Arkan Muhammad Ali al-Hasnawi (died 3 May 2008) was a Mahdi Army commander during the Iraq War. He fought against American and Iraqi forces in Najaf in 2003 and 2004 and was linked to numerous attacks on Coalition forces in Baghdad, rising to become a brigade commander and the leader of a Mahdi Army network in the Sha'ab neighborhood east of Sadr City. In October 2007, he was behind the kidnapping of Shia and Sunni tribe leaders in Diyala, and he also kidnapped six Sons of Iraq members on 7 February 2008. On 3 May 2008, he was killed in a GLMS strike on a Mahdi command and control center next to the Sadr Hospital in Sadr City.